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Alyssa Atef

• Youth Investment to Propel the Economy, November 22, 2020

Sophie Barnett

• EU Leaders in Malta: Addressing Migration Ahead of Taormina, February 1, 2017

Annie Beaulieu

• COP21, SDGs and Tourism — Just for Policy Makers or for Everyone?, December 8, 2015
• Azerbaijan: Transitioning from a Black Gold Economy to a Sustainable Tourism and Innovation Economy, March 16, 2016
• A Focus on Sustainable Growth But No Mention of Tourism's Potential, July 13, 2017
• The Carbon Impact of Travelling for World Peace, August 25, 2019
• A Promising Response: The 2020 Tourism Ministers Virtual Meeting, with John Kirton and Sarah Scott, May 14, 2020

Liam Bekirsky

• Can France Lead the G7 in Bridging the Digital Divide?, March 26, 2019
• La France peut-elle mener le G7 à combler la fracture numérique ?, 26 mars 2019
• France's G7 Presidency: From Digital to Education Strategy, May 16, 2019
• La présidence française du G7 : De la stratégie numérique à la stratégie pour l'éducation, 16 mai 2019

Francesco Bergoglio Errico

• Migration toward Europe and Foreign Terrorist Fighters, with Chiara Oldani, July 23, 2018

Hannah Bettsworth

• Can France Bring a Feminist Foreign Policy to the G7?, February 23, 2019, updated March 13, 2019

Katrina Bland

• From Taormina to Charlevoix, September 9, 2017
• Putting Gender Equality on the Table, October 9, 2017
• How Indigenous Peoples and G7 Leaders Can Best Work Together in 2018, December 26, 2017
• Canada's Sixth G7 Summit: Charlevoix, January 29, 2018
• Aligning Mental Health with Canada's G7 Charlevoix Priorities, June 8, 2018

Paulo Botta

• The Potential Impact of the G20 on Argentina's Foreign Policy, February 28, 2018

Caroline Bracht

• Climate Change, Employment and COP21, December 4, 2015
• Improving Inclusion, Innovation and Implementation: The G7 Education Ministers at Kurashiki, May 17, 2016

Caitlin Byrne

• China: Competent Yet Constrained on G20 Public Diplomacy, April 1, 2016

Sarah Burton

• G7 Foreign Ministers and Conflict Prevention, April 16, 2016
• Do Ambitious G7 Commitments Secure Less Compliance?, June 3, 2016

Elizabeth Carey

• The Riyadh G20 and the Glasgow COP — Climate Change Governance in 2020–21 and Beyond, December 2, 2020

Jaquelin Coulson

• Expectations for the G7-Africa Partnership under France's Presidency, July 10, 2019

Carey Davis

• Implications of American Apostasy, June 10, 2018

Martin Dionne

• How Can the G20 Use AI to Help Create Sustainable Communities in an Inter-Connected World? with Sarah Mariani

Sonja Dobson

• The Impact of the 2018 G7 Charlevoix Summit Outreach Sessions on Development in Africa, March 17, 2019
• What Should the G20's Anniversary Present Be to the World Trade Organization for Its Silver Jubilee?, November 22, 2020
• The G7 Summit: From London to Lough Erne, November 29, 2020

Alecsandra Dragus

• G7 ICT Ministers Make Advances in Kagawa, May 1, 2016

Marie Dubois

• Gender and France's 2019 G7, October 22, 2018
• Le genre sur l'agenda du G7 de la France en 2019, 22 octobre 2018

Katyrina Dzhaha

• Is the G20 Ready for the Next Global Financial Crisis?, February 4, 2016
• Will the G20 Finance Ministerial in Shanghai Lead Global Financial Regulation in the Right Direction?, February 19, 2016

Sally Elliott

• Countering Collapsing Oil Prices and COVID-19 at the G20 Energy Ministers Emergency Meeting, with John Kirton, May 18, 2020

Hélène Emorine

• G20 Hamburg Summit: A Strong Success for Counter-Terrorism, with Denisse Rudich, July 13, 2017
• Cautious Success: G7 Foreign Ministers Pressure U.S. to Stay in Iran Deal, April 24, 2018
• Missing in Action at the Halifax G7 Ministerial: France's Nicolas Hulot, September 18, 2018
• Porté disparu à la réunion ministérielle du G7 à Halifax: Nicolas Hulot de la France, 18 septembre 2018

Alexandre T. Gingras

• A Waltz on the Red Line: Will the G20 Call the Tune Again?, April 10, 2017
• Fire, Fury and the G20, September 21, 2017
• The Roles of G7 and G20 Foreign Ministers, June 2, 2018

Matthew Goodman

• G7 Leaders Need to Talk, May 16, 2016

Jenilee Guebert

• COP21 — A Legal or Political Deal?, December 2, 2015
  The Climate Change-Health Nexus at COP21: Moving Beyond the Environment, December 8, 2015

Angela Min Yi Hou

• The G7 and the BRICS: Companions Not Competitors, June 25, 2018
• Looking Forward to the 2019 Biarritz Summit, with Julia Tops, July 3, 2018
• First-Quarter Compliance with G7 Charlevoix's Key Commitments, September 18, 2018
• Fighting the Amazon Fires: Biodiversity at the G7 Biarritz Summit, with Sofia Lopez, August 23, 2019
• What Might Come from the G7 Biarritz Summit, August 25, 2019

Aurora Hudson

• Complying with Global Summit Climate Change Commitments: G7, G20 and UN Performance, December 1, 2015

Alev Kayagil

• The Conversation on Climate-Induced Migration, December 15, 2015

Tasnia Khan

• Action Items Toward Sustainable Finance, September 20, 2019
• Observations on NATO's 2019 London Summit, with Janakan Muthukumar, December 18, 2019

John Kirton

• Shanghai's Solid, Slow Start to China's G20 Year, February 28, 2016
• From Agenda Setting to Achievement at the G7's Ise-Shima Summit, April 1, 2016
• G7 Foreign Policy from Hiroshima to Ise-Shima and Beyond, April 10, 2016
• G7 Agriculture Ministers' Advances at Niigata, April 25, 2016
• Saving Lives at the G7 Ise-Shima Summit, May 26, 2016
• The G7's Poor Performance on Climate Change Control, May 27, 2016
• The South China Sea Dispute from Japan's G7 to China's G20 Summit, July 7, 2016
• A Disappointing Response to Global Dangers from G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors at Chengdu, July 24, 2016
• President Xi Jinping's Priorities for the G20's Hangzhou Summit, August 30, 2016
• The Hangzhou Summit's First Small Step to Control Climate Change, August 31, 2016
• Will the G20 Keep Its Promises to Reform the International Financial Institutions? (with Brittaney Warren), October 6, 2016
• President Trump Meets the G7 and the G20, November 11, 2016
• The G7's Merkel and Trudeau React to Trump, November 12, 2016
• China's G20 Leadership with Trump, Beijing, November 14, 2016
• From Hangzhou to Fabo: Implementing Innovation after China's G20 Summit, Beijing, November 15, 2016
• Innovation for Environmental Protection from Hangzhou to Hefei, Hefei, China, November 17, 2016
• Could China Lead the G20 in Combating Non-communicable Diseases?, Bantang, China, November 18, 2016
• China's Global Leadership at APEC and Anhui, November 23, 2016
• The Hamburg Summit's Challenge of Shaping an Interconnected World in a Way that Works for Migrants and Refugees, with Madeline Koch, December 1, 2016
• Xi Jinping's Global Leadership at Davos 2017, January 8, 2017
• Theresa May and Donald Trump Tackle Terrorism at Taormina, May 23, 2017
• G20 Climate Change Control without the White House, June 2, 2017
• Argentina's Agenda for G20 2018, June 4, 2017
• France's G7 Priorities for 2018/19, March 21, 2018
• Connecting Security and Climate Change at the G7 Foreign Ministers Meeting: Making the Missing Link from Lucca 2017 at Toronto 2018, April 22, 2018
• Shocked into Strong Success: Prospects for the 2018 G7 Foreign Ministers' Meeting, April 22, 2018
• Committed to Resilience: G7 Foreign Ministers' Commitments on Counter-Terrorism in 2017, with Mary Zelenova, April 23, 2018
• Protecting Citizen Safety in a Committed and Comprehensive Way: Challenges for the G7 Foreign and Security Ministers' in 2018, with Brittaney Warren, April 24, 2018
• Trump's Trade Protectionism, G7's Charlevoix Success, June 2, 2018
• Russia's Return to the G7/G8? June 8, 2018
• U.S. Goals Spur Charlevoix Summit Success, June 7, 2018
• The Charlevoix Summit's Success on Day One, June 8, 2018
• A Dual Track to Start Day Two at Charlevoix, June 9, 2018
• A Summit of Significant Success at G7 Charlevoix 2018, June 9, 2018
• Promising Prospects for the Halifax G7 Environment Ministers' Meeting, September 1, 2018
• Strengthening Sources of Success for the Halifax G7 Environment Ministers' Meeting, September 10, 2018
• Momentum for Major Advances at the Halifax G7 Environment Ministerial Meeting, September 16, 2018
• A Strong Start to the G7 Halifax Environment Ministers Meeting, September 19, 2018
• Momentum Builds at the G7 Halifax Environment Ministers Meeting, September 19, 2018
• A Meeting of Meaningful Momentum: The G7 Environment Ministers at Halifax, September 19, 2018
• The G7 Halifax Ministerial Meeting Raises a Record Amount of Funding, September 20, 2018
• The G20 Osaka Summit's Prospective Trade Success, May 16, 2019
• Canada's Election Impact on the U.S. G7 Summit in 2010, November 11, 2019
• Promising Prospects for Planetary Preservation at Saudi Arabia's G20 in 2020, December 6, 2019
• Integrating the Environment into the G20 Finance Meeting, February 24, 2020
• G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Come Together to Counter COVID-19, with Brittaney Warren, March 12, 2020
• Proposals for G20 Summit Action on March 26, 2020, March 25, 2020
• Putting Health First from Start to Finish at the March 31 G20 Finance Meeting, with Brittaney Warren, April 1, 2020
• Selected Steps against a Comprehensive Threat — The G20 Leaders' Statement on COVID-19, with Brittaney Warren, March 26, 2020
• Disappointing Results from the G20 Health Ministers' Meeting, April 19, 2020
• A Promising Response: The 2020 Tourism Ministers Virtual Meeting, with Annie Beaulieu and Sarah Scott, May 14, 2020
• Countering Collapsing Oil Prices and COVID-19 at the G20 Energy Ministers Emergency Meeting, with Sally Elliott, May 18, 2020
• Steady As She Goes: G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bankers in July 2020, July 18, 2020
• A Small, Short-Term Success at the G20's Riyadh Summit, November 22, 2020
• A Significant Short-Term Success: Promising Prospects for the G20 Riyadh Summit, November 18, 2020
• The G20's Global Governance Centrality, November 18, 2020
• On the Eve of the G20 Riyadh Summit: Dominant Issues, Leaders and Dynamics, November 20, 2020

Madeline Koch

• The Hamburg Summit's Challenge of Shaping an Interconnected World in a Way that Works for Migrants and Refugees, with John Kirton, December 1, 2016

Ella Kokotsis

• G7 and G20 Contributions to Mitigating Climate Change — Then and Now, December 1, 2015
• Overcoming Critical Challenges: Legal Force, CDR, Loss-Damages, Finance and MRVs, December 4, 2015
• How Trump and Taormina Could Have Advanced U.S. Energy Security, June 8, 2017
• Trump's Dramatic Failure in Advancing Climate Change and U.S. Energy Security, August 22, 2017
• Ambitious Words, Constrained Commitments: G20 Energy Performance at the 2020 Riyadh Summit, November 27, 2020

Kathryn Kotris

• Promising Policies for Persistent Problems in Trade<, July 17, 2016
• A History of Charlevoix, September 26, 2017

Julia Kulik

• Helping the Climate and Women Together: What Can Paris Do?, December 3, 2015
• Will the Ise-Shima Summit Generate Growth Through Global Governance?, May 25, 2016
• G7 Leaders' Reactions to the U.S. Election: Looking Ahead to a Summit with President Trump, November 17, 2016
• Advancing Gender Equality at the G7 Biarritz Summit: Good Steps Taken, Big Opportunities Missed, November 12, 2019

Christine Lagarde

• How to Help, Not Hinder Global Growth, June 5, 2019; published with permission

Andrew F. Liu

• Mobilizing a Reformed International Monetary Fund, September 3, 2016

Sofia Lopez

• Fighting the Amazon Fires: Biodiversity at the G7 Biarritz Summit, with Angela Min Yi Hou, August 23, 2019

Jonathan Luckhurst

• Prospects and Prescriptions for the G20's Shanghai Finance Meeting, February 19, 2016
• No G20 Policy Shift, Despite Shanghai's Focus on Sustainable Growth, February 29, 2016
• November Asia-Pacific Summits Influenced by Global Authority Shifts, November 6, 2017

Sarah Mariani

• How Can the G20 Use AI to Help Create Sustainable Communities in an Inter-Connected World? with Martin Dionne, September 21, 2017
• The Role of Youth at the 2018 Charlevoix Summit, April 12, 2019

Maria Marchyshyn

• The Trans-Pacific Partnership: From the G7 in Japan to Canada and the United States, July 17, 2016
• Hamburg 2017: Will Germany Complete the Missing Pieces from Hangzhou?, October 16, 2016
• Mobilizing CETA's Opportunities for Canadian Business, October 25, 2017
• The G20's Riyadh Summit: Grand Ambitions Based in Virtual Reality, November 24, 2020

Matthew McIntosh

• The Hangzhou Summit and the Case of Youth Unemployment, October 6, 2016
• Climate Change at Taormina, May 25, 2017
• From COP21 in Paris to the G20 in Hamburg to COP23 in Bonn, August 1, 2017
• Assessing Saudi Arabian Leadership in 2020 G20 Sustainable Tourism and Energy, May 17, 2020

Tyler McMurdo

• France's Climate Change Leadership in the European Union and the World: What This Means for Biarritz, February 3, 2019

Lauren Millar

• Can International Law Improve Compliance with G7 and G20 Health Commitments?, July 21, 2020
• The G20 Joint Finance and Health Ministers Meeting Statement — An Important Brick on the Road to Riyadh, December 3, 2020

Duja Muhanna

• G7 Environmental Ministers Advance Leaders' Oceans Governance, September 20, 2018
• Tackling Health at the Buenos Aires Summit and Beyond, December 6, 2018
• Biodiversity and the Road to the G7, April 25, 2019
• Will the G7 Health Ministerial Meeting Spur the G7 Biarritz Summit to a Healthy Success?, May 16, 2019

Janakan Muthukumar

• Observations on NATO's 2019 London Summit, with Tasnia Khan, December 18, 2019

Tristen Naylor

• On Linking Terrorism and Climate Change, December 10, 2015
• The G20 and 21st-Century Communication, August 1, 2016
• China's G20 Summit: How Not to Do Message Control, September 18, 2016
• High Turnover at the Summit Table: Does It Matter?, May 23, 2017
• On the Margins: Meetings to Watch at the Hamburg G20, July 4, 2017
• The New Role of the G20: Safeguarding Global Governance from a Revisionist America, July 6, 2017
• The G7 Summit Will Show What Sort of Brexit Britain Faces, August 22, 2019

Hanh Nguyen

• Integrating a Gender-Responsive Approach in Climate Change Decision Making, July 22, 2016
• Climate Finance under New U.S. Presidency, November 23, 2016

Liz Noh

• Japan's Approach to the G7 Ise-Shima Summit, March 8, 2016
• Civil Society Gathers at the G7 Ise-Shima Summit, May 25, 2016

Chiara Oldani

• Italy, China and Sardinia, November 24, 2016
• A Tough Start to Italy's Year as G7 Host, December 5, 2016
• The First Days of Italy's New Prime Minister, December 12, 2016
• Italy's New-Old Government, December 21, 2016
• The Pillars of the Italian G7 Presidency, February 11, 2017
• Governing Global Derivatives: G7/G20 Progress, Problem, Possibilities, March 20, 2017
• From Finance in Bari to the Summit in Taormina, May 23, 2017
• Migration toward Europe and Foreign Terrorist Fighters, with Francesco Bergoglio Errico, July 23, 2018

Daniel C. Park

• Sluggish Growth Cannot Count: Back to the Drawing Board for World Leaders? September 3, 2016
• North Korea: From Vancouver to Charlevoix, February 2, 2018

Giorgia Ponti

• Renzi and the 2017 G7, May 28, 2016

Lida Preyma

• Women's Empowerment at the G20 — Maybe Next Year, November 22, 2020

Denisse Rudich

• EU Leaders Welcome the Chinese Presidency of the G20 Summit (with Marissa Young), September 8, 2016
• From Hangzhou to Hamburg: Ensuring a Smooth Transition, October 4, 2016
• Round-Up of Financial Crime, Corruption and Terrorism Initiatives at the G20 Osaka Summit, August 24, 2019
• Applying a Financial Crime Lens to Advance G7 Gender Initiatives, September 21, 2019
• Illicit Finance Must Remain High on the Agenda as G20 Leaders Announce Pandemic Response Measures, November 22, 2020
• The G20 Pledge to Promote Integrity in Responding to the Global Pandemic, November 24, 2020

Sarah Richardson

• The BRICS Summit and Brexit: Trade and Investment Prospects, October 18, 2016
• How Brexit's Article 50 Will Affect G7 and G20 Summitry in 2017, April 3, 2017
• G20 Hamburg Summit: A Strong Success for Counter-Terrorism, with Hélène Emorine, July 13, 2017

Tristram Sainsbury

• China's G20 Moment Approaches, September 2, 2016

Amandine Scherrer

• What France's Election Might Mean for the G7 and G20 Summits, May 3, 2017

Sarah Scott

• A Promising Response: The 2020 Tourism Ministers Virtual Meeting, with Annie Beaulieu and Sarah Scott, May 14, 2020

Sabrina Shaw

• From Hamburg to Buenos Aires: Education, Innovation and the Future of Work, September 8, 2017 (updated September 24, 2017)
• Championing Latin America in the G20, November 3, 2017

Chris Sims

• Corruption and the G20: An Insufficient Success, January 9, 2019

Janel Smith

• Building Resilient Societies to Counter Global Terrorism, March 31, 2016

Dennis Snower

• An Evaluation of the G20 Hamburg Summit, July 10, 2017

Bogdan Stovba

• Prospects for the G7 Biarritz Summit Performance on Russia, August 23, 2019
• Trump Suggests Inviting Russia to the Next G7 Summit, August 26, 2019

Julia Tops

• Looking Forward to the 2019 Biarritz Summit, with Angela Min Yi Hou, July 3, 2018
• First-Quarter Compliance with G7 Charlevoix's Key Commitments, September 18, 2018
• What Might Come from the G7 Biarritz Summit, August 25, 2019

Heidi Ullrich

• The G20 and the Digital Gender Divide: Closing the Gender Gap in ICT Skill Development, June 7, 2017

Alissa Wang

• The G7 Finance Ministerial Meeting at Sendai — United and Divided, May 25, 2016
• The G20 Finance Ministerial Meeting at Chengdu or , July 25, 2016
• Prospects for the 2016 BRICS Goa Summit, August 30, 2016
• China's Coordination of the G20 and BRICS Summits, September 4, 2016
• BRICS Summit: Has a Bridge Been Built? September 5, 2016
• Predicting China's G20 Compliance from Hangzhou to Davos, January 24, 2017
• From Tweeting to Talking — The Trump-Xi Relationship from Florida to Hamburg, April 10, 2017
• Prospects for the Xiamen Summit, August 28, 2017
• The Clash of Two Summits: The G7 Charlevoix Summit and the Shanghai Cooperation Organization Summit, June 9, 2018

Tracy Wang

• Forging the Economy-Security Link at the Toronto G7 Foreign and Security Ministers Meeting, April 22, 2018

Brittaney Warren

• Financing the Climate at COP21, December 8, 2015
• Dealing with Disruptive Technology, January 20, 2016
• The Costs and Benefits of Disruptive Technologies, Febuary 3, 2016
• China's First G20 Sherpa Meeting and Beyond, February 11, 2016
• G7 Energy Ministers Meet Ahead of Ise-Shima Summit, May 3, 2016
• The Revival of the G7 Environment Ministers' Meeting, May 18, 2016
• Following the Money at Ise-Shima, May 26, 2016
• G20 Agriculture Ministers Discuss Hunger, Poverty, Climate and Intensive Agriculture, June 7, 2016
• G20 Energy Ministers Meet Again, July 6, 2016
• Will the G20 Keep Its Promises to Reform the International Financial Institutions? (with John Kirton), October 6, 2016
• Trump and Climate Change: From COP22 to the G7, November 18, 2016
• From Trump's Inauguration to the G20 Hamburg Summit, January 25, 2017
• G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Meet in Baden-Baden, March 18, 2017
• Trump's Executive Order: A New Energy Era, April 3, 2017
• Tales Taormina Can Tell G7 Leaders, with Meredith Williams, May 25, 2017
• Toward a Legally Binding Climate Agreement at UNGA, October 10, 2017
• Protecting Citizen Safety in a Committed and Comprehensive Way: Challenges for the G7 Foreign and Security Ministers' in 2018 (with John Kirton), April 24, 2018
• G7 Finance and Development Ministers Issue Co-chairs' Summary, June 3, 2018
• Canada's Leadership at the 2018 G7 Environment Ministers' Meeting in Halifax, September 21, 2018
• Climate Ambition Stagnant at G20 Osaka Summit, July 29, 2019
• Linking Climate with Agriculture, Biodiversity and Oceans, August 26, 2019
• Governing Through Goals: The G20 and UN 2030 Agenda Sustainable Development Goals, December 6, 2019
• G20 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governors Come Together to Counter COVID-19, with John Kirton, March 12, 2020
• The G20's Health Performance: Anticipating the Overdue COVID-19 Videoconference, March 17, 2020
• Selected Steps against a Comprehensive Threat: The G20 Leaders' Statement on COVID-19, with John Kirton, March 26, 2020
• Putting Health First from Start to Finish at the March 31 G20 Finance Meeting, with John Kirton, April 1, 2020
• "It Is Madness": UN Secretary-General António Guterres Calls on G20 to Clean COVID-19 Rescue Packages for Future Generations, November 20, 2020
• G20 2020 Riyadh's Prospects for Climate Change, November 20, 2020
• To Postpone or to Respond: That Is the Climate Question G20 Leaders Need to Answer, November 21, 2020
• The G7's Pre-Cornwall Summit — Is the G7 Acting Like Its House Is on Fire?, February 19, 2021
• Improving G7 Performance on Climate Change, April 12, 2021
• This Earth Day "2030 is the New 2050," April 23, 2021
• Holding the G7 Environment Ministers Meeting to the Highest Standard (with John Kirton), May 19, 2021
• Canada and Climate in the G7: Reconciling Global Commitments with Domestic Compliance, June 9, 2021

David A. Welch

• A Crossroads in Korea, February 12, 2016
• The G7 and the South China Sea, May 26, 2016
• On Maritime Security, G7 Leaders Pivot Toward International Law, May 27, 2016
• Are G20 Summits Worth It?, July 3, 2019

Meredith Williams

• Can the T20 Help the G20 Meet the Challenges of Financial Regulation?, December 2, 2016
• Tales Taormina Can Tell G7 Leaders, with Brittaney Warren, May 25, 2017

Katherine Yampolsky

• G7 Performance on Terrorism, 1975-2018, August 24, 2019

Marissa J. Young

• A Fundamental Gap: Why China's G20 Must Address Health Security, September 4, 2016
• EU Leaders Welcome the Chinese Presidency of the G20 Summit (with Denisse Rudich), September 8, 2016

Mary Zelenova

• Committed to Resilience: G7 Foreign Ministers' Commitments on Counter-Terrorism in 2017, with John Kirton, April 23, 2018
• Trump Suggests Inviting Russia to the Next G7 Summit, August 26, 2019

Genevieve Zingg

• Security and Terrorism: Taking a Backseat at Biarritz? September 9, 2019

Ana Zotovic

• Comparing Copenhagen 2009 and Paris 2015, November 30, 2015
• Renewables Respond to the Climate Change Challenge, December 10, 2015

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